AVID Jazz continues with its Four Classic album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Sidney Bechet, complete with original artwork and liner notes.Favourites; Sidney Bechet with Claude Luter Et Son Orchestre - Vol 1; Sidney Bechet with Claude Lute Et Son Orchestre - Vol 2 and SouvenirsAs jazz legends go, they dont come much bigger than the master clarinettist and soprano saxophonist, Sidney Bechet. Bechets story is, of course, well known to all jazz fans, born in New Orleans, recording with Clarence Williams in 1923, even before the great Louis Armstrong, playing with all the greats of the 1930s and 40s including Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson and King Oliver. Arrested in the UK for assault, returned to the States, left again for a world tour which included Russia before settling in France (where he also served 11 months for assault). And all the while making outstanding music and largely on his own, often very forceful terms. Our four albums feature Bechet performing in Paris, France in the 1940s and early 1950s for the French record label Vogue. Bechet remained in France, where he had become a huge star, for the rest of his life and died there in 1959.